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All applications of CBA are controversial when economists with different explicit or implicit
biases
study the same topic.
A similar policy of “mutual recognition” could be the key to successful US-EU trade negotiations, but only if both parties can overcome the
biases
that are built into their regulatory and political systems.
The EU overcame national
biases
to establish the Single Market by instituting a process of legally binding qualified majority voting, whereby individual member states could be outvoted on specific regulations.
Markets have moods and biases, which need to be counterbalanced.ampnbsp;
One argument is that women in sport would command the same market price as men, if only structural gender biases, such as greater media coverage and sponsorship for men’s sports, were removed.
Although market value may be determined by consumer demand, as economic theory has it, these preferences are themselves the result of socially structured gender
biases.
In the absence of these biases, demand for women’s sports – as measured by attendance at matches, television ratings, and so on – would equal demand for men’s sports.
Feminist analysts, such as Patricia Williams, have shown that gender
biases
are built into society.
Here an irony intrudes: usually prompted by civil movements, removal of such
biases
only becomes effective when these movements have their goals implemented by direct state action.
With previous presumptions, biases, and taboos having been erased, it may be possible to create something better.
From Peter Navarro as Director of the National Trade Council, to Wilbur Ross as Commerce Secretary, Robert Lighthizer as US Trade Representative, and Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, the new administration’s anti-China
biases
are without modern precedent.
Moreover, information that is filtered through networks of friends can result in an echo chamber of news that reinforces one’s own
biases
(though there is considerable uncertainty about how serious a problem this represents).
Add to that conscious and unconscious
biases
and considerable temptation for political manipulation, and the risks become only more profound.
More and more people are claiming that markets are characterized by irrationality, bubbles, fads, and frenzies, and that economic actors are driven by behavioral
biases.
It is still not too late – not quite – to start couching the broader discussion of nuclear energy in language that will inform rather than alarm, and in terms that will nurture well-balanced judgments rather than entrench long-held
biases.
Despite its inadequacies and biases, Al Jazeera has changed the Arab world for the better.
Facebook and Twitter algorithms confirm a group’s
biases
and screen out contrary viewpoints – and even facts.
Internal inertia, incomplete information, risk aversion, and conscious and unconscious
biases
combine to impede recognition of the urgency and importance of adaptation.
Many of the
biases
holding women back are unconscious; and, by their very nature, these blind spots cannot be tackled by statements of intent alone.
Tackling gender inequality will require us to identify where, how, and why these
biases
materialize, and to develop systematic strategies and interventions to root them out.
An analysis of their influence, inclinations, and
biases
indicates that the Nobel committee kept up an appearance of fairness through a rigid balance between right and left, formalists and empiricists, Chicago School and Keynesian.
Overcoming historic
biases
requires questioning an industry’s taboos.
Few are eager to self-disrupt, a process that takes us out of our comfort zone, forcing us to confront our long-standing blind spots and unconscious
biases
and adopt a new mindset.
A host of factors contributes to the divergence between data and perception, beginning with people’s innate
biases.
When it comes to assessing economic and social trends, both
biases
are shaped by the news cycle.
It doesn’t help that on social media, users can “self-select” the type of content to which they are exposed, potentially reinforcing their existing
biases.
Obstacles to the professional advancement of educated women in Europe is rooted in corporate culture, gender biases, and stereotyping, rather than outright discrimination.
A Big Data program that used this search result to evaluate hiring and promotion decisions might penalize black candidates who resembled the pictures in the results for “unprofessional hairstyles,” thereby perpetuating traditional social
biases.
The fact is that we need fewer efficient-markets theorists and more people who work on microstructure, limits to arbitrage, and cognitive
biases.
For a long-term balance-sheet approach to gain traction, politicians will have to drop the ideological
biases
that are distorting fiscal policy.
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